I am absolutely on Celaeno1 side.
My primary device to control everything in the house are the cheap philips hue dimmer switches. If they are not going to work i won’t be able to migrate to 2.5. However as i am not capable of contributing code to the project. I tried to make clear that i got the same issue on this forum as well as on github.
I can understand the decision of cweitkamp who did the last change in the hue binding and doesn’t use the dimmer switches anymore, as it is his free time that he is contributing to this project.
However my conclusion for this is to move to another meta smart home controller like hass.io or nodered which still supports my hardware as i won’t have any other choice than that.
If there is anything else except for contributing code what i can do i am absolutely willing to pay 50€ to get the support of the dimmer switches back, however i don’t think that this won’t be a acceptable price as the development will take more than half an hour for the contributor.
Cheers
Andreas